New Leaders for New Schools

Program Summary

Introduction

New Leaders for New Schools is a national non-profit that is leading a movement to ensure that every child achieves academic excellence. To achieve this goal, New Leaders attracts, prepares, and supports passionate and talented individuals from within education, as well as former educators, to become outstanding principals in our nation’s urban public schools. It is clear that great schools are led by great principals, and the New Leaders program is designed to effectively prepare and support principals who transform urban public education at scale. In 2005, New Leaders expanded to Baltimore which joined Chicago, Memphis, New York, Washington, DC, and the California Bay Area as our sixth partner city.

Theory of Change

New Leaders for New Schools believes that principals are the critical lever in driving school and student success.

Definition of Leadership

New Leaders for New Schools defines leadership as the ability to create a shared vision, build effective teams, and achieve despite tremendous obstacles.

Mission Statement

New Leaders for New Schools’ mission is to promote high academic achievement for every child by attracting, preparing, and supporting the next generation of outstanding leaders for our nation’s urban public schools.

Costs

New Leaders for New Schools’ major internal program cost categories include:

Recruiting & Admissions Costs – Includes the significant investment of staff time in application review, first round interviews, and finalist day selection activities. Also includes travel for candidates from outside our program cities.

Summer Foundations Costs – The largest area of our budget, this includes all delivery and travel costs for our summer Foundations courses. Major components are the costs of the faculty, the travel/housing costs for the Residents for six weeks, and the course materials and copyrights.

Residency Costs – Includes ongoing materials, coaching, and support costs for the yearlong Residency, including staff costs for all of our Leadership Coaches, who provide direct coaching and support to our New Leaders and run the weekly cohort meetings in all local program sites.

Foundations Seminar Costs – Includes costs for four week-long sessions during each academic year when we bring New Leaders back together for additional course content and reflection.

Certification Costs – Includes all administrative and course credit costs for state approval of the New Leaders for New Schools curriculum and the receipt of state certification for each of the Residents from our university partners in each local program city. We are working to designate New Leaders as an alternative route to certification in all of our cities, and therefore decrease or eliminate this cost.

Placement Support Costs – Includes costs for placement assistance for program participants in urban charter schools in each of our program cities.

General Management Costs – Includes costs for general management, fundraising, and research and development.

Licensure

New Leaders for New Schools partners with local universities to provide formal certification and licensure as administrators in their respective states and the District of Columbia. In February 2005, New Leaders and the Maryland State Department of Education created a unique partnership agreement whereby New Leaders was approved to directly recommend candidates to the State for full principal certification (without a university partnership), upon candidate completion of the program. This agreement marks the first time we know of in the U.S. that full principal certification will be given through a program outside a university or school of education.

Standards

New Leaders for New Schools’ training curriculum is based on the Interstate School Leadership Licensure Consortium (ISLLC).

Measuring K-12 Student Success

The key measure of success for New Leaders for New Schools is gains in student achievement in schools led by New Leaders principals. Specifically, we look for our principals to drive dramatic gains in proficiency rates in math and reading for all students. We access principal impact by looking at state test scores as well as at school quality indicators.

Contact

Kathleen Padian, National Director of Development
30 West 26th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10010
Phone: 646.792.1064 | Fax: 646.792.1071 | Email: kpadian@nlns.org

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